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> The a) b) c) and 1) 2) 3) argument seems just confused - those are not delimiters. Hmm... I don't know about that. They fit many of the definitions I can fin
by civilized 4y ago
> The a) b) c) and 1) 2) 3) argument seems just confused - those are not delimiters.
Hmm... I don't know about that. They fit many of the definitions I can find online:
> A delimiter is a sequence of one or more characters for specifying the boundary between separate, independent regions in plain text, mathematical expressions or other data streams. -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Delimiter
> a character that marks the beginning or end of a unit of data -- https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delimiter https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/delimiter
- reportgunner 4y agoFair point, I might be wrong there. Intuitively I would think of them as indices rather than delimiters.
- civilized 4y agoI thought the same way before looking into it. The only context I ever see the word delimiter in is "X-delimited values", where X = comma, pipe, tab, etc.
- wizofaus 4y agoSo the ) is the delimiter between the list counter and the item text, but the counter itself has meaning (indicating order/priority/importance) so I'd never consider that part of the delimiter.